Research seminar : Old Testament exegesis

Teacher(s)

Luciani Didier ; Wénin André ;

Language

Français

Main themes

In order to achieve this end, the students will - study some texts selected in the Old Testament in accordance with a methodological problem or a thematic question; - learn to practice, individually and collectively, an accurate exegetical method; - use in that work the specialised exegetical tools.

Aims

At the end of this seminar, the student will be able to - master the main procedures of biblical exegesis and apply them in studying a text from the Old Testament; - use specialised exegetical tools (bibliographical works, manual and electronic concordances, encyclopaedic and theological dictionaries); - communicate clearly and highlight the results of his/her research.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

2016-2017

'The Decalogue illustrated illustrated by Old Testament stories'

 

Teacher: this year the seminar will be hold by Prof. A. Wénin.

 

Theme: This seminar will continue the work done in the course LTHEO2211 (1st quadrimester - see the specifications of this course). Other stories will be read to better understand the "Ten Commandments".

 

Selection of texts: the seminar participants will offer themselves one (or more) passage(s) (possibly part of the corpus of their mémoire or thesis) with the prior consent of the teacher. Proposals should be sent by email to the latter at the latest three weeks before the first session of the seminar, it is 15 January 2016.

 

Procedure: Every student will prepare particularly the episode which he proposed forintroducing the work of a session. His/her presentation (maximum 30 minutes) will give someclues which (s)he considers useful for the study of the episode. All the students will haveprepared the text, if possible by reading it in the original text. At the end of the seminar, everyparticipant will draft a personal synthesis of his/her session (30.000 signs max.)

Other information

The evaluation will take into account the presentation of the introduction, the participation activates in the group work and the personal synthesis

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